As you can tell, I migrated my blog. I’m now using Serendipity, and things seem to be ok. I don’t really like the themes that come with it, but I haven’t looked at the additional ones from their CVS repository yet. This will do for now. And I managed to write a script to convert my previous blog entries to the new format. Dropped one and had to manually alter a few, but that was my fault.

Upfront, I apologize for not having EasyMoblog replaced yet and fixing how text is formatted for RSS. I did try Serendipity a little this weekend, but I was actually doing things at work this week, so no migration.
Look at that, already off track. I’ve tried many times to start using duffman again this week for Solaris testing. Between forgetting memory, forgetting mouse, forgetting that I’m using dvd media without a dvd-rom, and putting a 512MB stick into a motherboard that will only accept sticks up to 256MB, I have realized that this might be the Linux gods’ way of telling me “NO!”. Whatever, I’ll find more RAM and try again tomorrow. Jerks.
On a random note though, I was thinking about the word blog. Obviously it is short for weblog, but I started questioning whether there was ever a site called WeBlog. I would assume that by now there would be some WeBlog social network service do-dad whatever, But no. Weblog.com is just an advertisement, weblog.net redirects to a Spanish forum, and weblog.org is someone’s personal blog. Interesting. This is the stuff I find interesting.

Damn easymoblog sucks. Task for the week: play with Serendipity and LiveJournal, WordPress, and others and migrate past posts to a new platform. I suppose I should also try CoMoblog, but since it’s based on easymoblog, I’m sure it’s crap.
Screw you EasyMoblog!!
Anyone want to suggest their recommended platforms?

I don’t remember what I’ve posted, but Kevin Smith wrote some stuff up last night and here’s what I’ve got from digging around.
Smith wrapped filming by December (forget date now). Amazing feat considering he originally planned to begin filming in January of 2006. A screening was done for about 50 people (consisting of Miramax execs, Smiths’ friends, and liked members of the ViewAskew forums), lasting about 1:38.
This morning, Smith posted some more status, as well as a trailer that can be found here. Great trailer. Shows some of the fun times in the movie and reveals little to no story. Good music selection for the trailer as well.
So what now? When will it be released? Some sound and effects still need to be added to the movie, but Smith is very happy with how it’s coming along. No release date yet, but sometime in August or September.
Sorry about dropping the ball on the last part there. I did have tabs open with Smith’s plan to bring the flick to a film festival (Cannes?), but I lost it in the confusion today.

I got a planet site working for the lug. While I like how simple Planet is, it also gets frustrating how little there is at the template system. The fact that I really don’t know CSS well, and was trying to make it look like the lug website didn’t help. But it’s up, and maybe some day down the line there will be more people than just me and Sean on there. Everyone knows I’m not entertaining.
While working on the planet though, I found out how borked my RSS feed was, at least the RSS 2.0 feed. A validator I used quit after the first three errors, but whoever wrote the feed generator module for easymoblog must know nothing about RSS. Hell, he used timestamps for pubDate elements. At least that’s fixed now.

I’m sure that I’m jinxing myself, but that year is off to a good start. My flag (sorry, couldn’t find an image) is finally hanging, so I suppose I’m officially moved in after four months or so. We had a snow day yesterday, which of course I wasted. And I finally have an interview Friday.
The 100 page countdown in The Hobbit has begone. I wanted to get it done by the end of the week, but I got lazy the past couple of days. Once it is done, I really need to start reading tech books again, starting with Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS, and Programming with GNU Software.

I was sitting around bored today, and decided to continue adding things to my repository so I don’t loose them, and fix some entries. After a while I realize, I really only loose data when I’m trying to back things up. Over summer, I even destoryed my laptop hard drive in an attempt to backup a few files. I realize this after I find out today that I somehow managed to completely delete my .mozilla and docs directories.
Lesson for me to learn today: Don’t bother backing things up.

“Warning, incoming update.”
Alright, I admit, I’ve been watching ReBoot too much lately. But time for updates. There is one week of classes left before finals. My second game project is due Tuesday, and of course I’ve procrastinated too much on it. My biggest problem is that it just isn’t interesting enough for me to care. I didn’t have that problem the last time around.
After finals I need to clean my room. Half the room became this space that houses all the crap that I just drop in here. I haven’t made my bed since September. The A/C is still in the window. Hell, I haven’t even hung up the linux flag yet (those of you that know me know that I don’t officially move in until that flag hangs). Somebody needs to make sure that I do obsolutely nothing the weekend after finals until my room is presentable.
So what else has been going on? This has been a big week in the world of open source. New branches of Apache HTTPd and Firefox have come out (take note that firefox is now at mozilla.com). A new development branch of MySQL has also been released, as well as lots of action in the GNOME and PHP worlds.
I finally finished reading Starship Troopers. It surprising didn’t take me long to read. Short chapters and other breaks are very important. Next up is The Hobbit. I’m also trying to read more tech books so I can forgot what I know and learn it the right way. I’ll post my overall plan about that on my development blog soon.

This is mostly so I can keep track of this link, but it’s a great tip for anyone. If you don’t know what version control means, please research it. It’s something everybody should at least know about.
Lately, I’ve been real interested in backing up some important data. Some of it I would like to have available for multiple machines too. But I couldn’t figure out how to add some of the files in my home directory to a subversion repository without first importing the data, then checking it out again. However, I did find this link in the subversion FAQ. So I easily created a jax directory to a repository, and now I’m adding dot files and directories that I can easily get back if something happens. This is also great for tracking changes.

The folks over at Guardian Unlimited has posted posted of a survey they’ve conducted. “Survey Monkey’s rubic” aside, here are the top 20 geek novels (written in English since 1932). I’ve only read two of the listed novels, but I’m glad that three of the books on my list of things to read soon are in there.